Trump flew secretly from Turkey due to Iranian threat, The Washington Post reports
The Secret Service moved Trump to an older military jet with missile defenses after intelligence warned of a possible Iranian plot.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump secretly departed Turkey following U.S. intelligence of a credible Iranian assassination threat, prompting an urgent security operation to ensure his safe transit to the United Kingdom.
- Intelligence indicated a potential missile plot against his aircraft, forcing the Secret Service to move Trump from his $400 million Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 to a VC-25A jet equipped with defensive laser technology.
- To exit the Boeing 747 unnoticed, Trump and aides used a hydraulic catering truck to board an Air Force C-32A, which flew to the United Kingdom under the call sign Reach while journalists remained on the decoy flight.
- The White House publicly maintained that Trump traveled on the older 747, which he had promised to fly "for old time's sake," though the operation successfully fooled journalists on the decoy aircraft.
- This operation follows previous security measures where aides used a decoy plane owned by ally Steve Witkoff to protect the president, a tactic so tightly held that it fooled even people traveling with him.
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Donald Trump arrived at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk last month aboard a jet other than the Air Force One he had been filmed boarding an hour earlier in Ankara, after a credible Iranian threat to his life prompted what a United States official has described as a deception operation. The account was first reported by the Washington Post on Monday, drawing on documentation it reviewed, a US official aware of the operation and a second person familiar…
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President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the...
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